LO3: Evaluation Justification of Frame Rates and Duration★

I used 13FPS for my animation, for 2 reasons.

One is that my animation, being a cartoon, required me to re-draw characters, backgrounds, etc. on each frame. This made it so that about 10 seconds of footage took around an hour to produce. As I was working with a deadline, this meant that it would be quicker to produce, while still looking smooth.

Any more than15FPS, however, caused issues in the process. Even making tiny movements from one frame to the next, the movements would still happen far too quickly, and the only way to combat this was by having each frame repeat itself at least once. Even if it was at 15FPS, this would produce the safe effect as an animation with a 7.5FPS, which was too choppy and not ideal. It looked unpolished and would not appeal to audiences.

The duration of my animation is just over 2 minutes. This is because the animation is designed to be posted on social medias like TikTok that only allow short form content. I thought that by making it under 3 minutes, this would maximize the amount of people who would watch it on platforms like TikTok, because although you can have up to ten minutes, people lose interest and scroll past if it is too long. It also follows the conventions of a web series, because it is ideal for watching on mobile devices and it is also shorter than a conventional TV cartoon.